Dr. Barolat finished medical school in 1974 at the University of Torino, Italy. He then undertook a residency in Neurosurgery at the University of Torino. Subsequently, he completed a fellowship in Functional Neurosurgery and Neurostimulation at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami, Florida. Following the fellowship, Dr. Barolat undertook a second residency in Neurosurgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. He is certified by both the American and the Italian Board of Neurosurgery. Dr. Barolat was President of the International Neuromodulation Society for two consecutive terms. He was a Founding member of the North American Neuromodulation Society and is on the Editorial Board of the Journal Neuromodulation. Dr. Barolat has performed, in the span of 40 years, 9,000 neurostimulation procedures. His experience encompasses basically almost every neurostimulation application ever appeared on the market.